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Taimen

  • Meet Dr. Saulyegul Avlyush

    Wild Salmon Center’s new Senior Mongolia Consultant is building momentum to protect wild fish—including the world’s largest salmonid—across her nation.

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  • Salmon Need Cold Water. We’re Tracking It Across Continents.

    From Oregon’s North Coast to Mongolia, our thermal detectives are out in rivers, searching out cold spots. What they’re finding is both sobering and hopeful. 

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  • The Taimen Fund Closes, Entrusts Mongolia Work to Wild Salmon Center

    The Taimen Fund’s plans for closure include funding for WSC’s work to protect a cherished and vulnerable wild salmonid.

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  • Meet Melaney Dunne

    Our new Salmon Watershed Scientist is boosting Wild Salmon Center’s science efforts in Mongolia and beyond.

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  • Russia Gains Two Vast New Protected Areas

    For the Tugur and Maia watersheds, new legal status could be a powerful tool to safeguard priceless biodiversity, including salmon and giant taimen.

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  • New Research Finds Taimen’s Supersized Strength in DNA

    New research from scientists including WSC’s Dr. Matt Sloat suggests that protecting genetic diversity could help save the world’s largest salmonid.

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  • Russia Tugur Siberian taimen

    River Tigers

    In a new film, WSC’s Guido Rahr travels deep into the Russian Far East, to the land of taimen. Journey Back in Time to the Tugur to meet the River Tiger. Premiering at the Banff Film Festival November 2020.

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  • A Catch-and-Release Campaign for Russia

    The Russian Salmon Association is redoubling efforts to win fly fishing hearts and minds.

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  • Mongolia’s Taimen Rivers Have Answers

    The massive, mysterious salmonid—revered by conservationists and anglers alike—is declining in Russia’s Far East. A new Wild Salmon Center research project in Mongolia could help protect taimen across their range.

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  • The Keystone of the North Pacific

    Like the central stone that holds together an arch, a keystone species holds together an ecosystem. That’s the role of wild salmon in the North Pacific.

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